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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
2
Some advocate limiting family size to improve quality, but smaller families often lack. The text notes younger children tend to be stronger physically and brighter mentally, with claims that the seventh or eighth child may be the finest, possibly due to maturity of parents.
A man boasts of a Europe health trip ordered by his doctor. The exchange implies a self-satisfied mood from the implied benefit and social approval.
An animated council session ended in a protracted sitting with remarks about ham and lunch. A member exclaimed astonishment and amusement at the prospect of adjourning for lunch amid debate and remarks from colleagues.
At the annual prize giving Mr Ian Malcolm M P addressed the girls while Mrs Malcolm handed out prizes. He urged thorough effort, understanding, and curiosity, sharing a tale about a girl misinterpreting King John as riding motor cars and cruelly ground people down by taxis.
A mosaic of brief items including a farmer’s oyster plant plan for future savings, admonitions on friendship and spending, notes on crime and punishment, a Rochester anecdote about a magistrate and his wife, and a claim that Damascus and Jerusalem have ancient mentions.
Messrs Henry and Roland Bryarly left this morning for a ten day journey to Colorado Springs. They will attend the meetings of the Insurance Club with a capital value of 100000 at a session there.
A terse OCR fragment shows sums: 200,000 OU 1,000 00 7,000 00 6,000 00 154,310 6O 50,823 01 31,124 58 88,003 88 2 859 16 2,795. 00 paying deposits 1,258,134.24 Mae borrowed 25,000 00 notes and bills redissounted 47,500 00.
A tour of tenants revealed a farm with a large assortment of livestock in unusually good condition. The farmer boasted that if everyone kept ready for dating as well, they would all be as well off. Bela Puky testifies in Columbus bankruptcy court that Hungarians on the south side gain 50 to 80 dollars per birth, five children in five years netting about 300 dollars, invested in an insurance policy surrendered before the bank crash.
A gray-headed man recalls testing beer and a café exchange about freshness and singing glasses. A Kansas City Star quip follows as Noah Count humorously riffs on names with Yule B. Sick turning into a drug-sign pun at The Busy Corner.
The article warns that overly loose shoes cause coins bunions and flatten arches. It recommends women with uniquely shaped feet to buy slightly too long rather than too wide to avoid discomfort and improper fit.
Thousands along the Shrewsbury river witness an airborne looking craft zoom over iceboat races. The small runabout, built by Fred Waters of Red Bank New York American, lands at the course end. A magistrate's stern handling follows a begging case with a penny dropped by a boy and the plea that it was not his fault.
Opie Read recalls a desert platform encounter with a fellow speaker who refuses tobacco and liquor. Read jokes that he does all those things while the other man never smokes or swears, in a Cosmopolitan Magazine anecdote.
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